Meredith Mcpherron
Managing Partner at Drive by DraftKings
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment. Drive by DraftKings' mission is to push the frontier of new markets and categories revolutionizing sports, gaming and media. Founding partners include DraftKings, General Catalyst, Accomplice and Boston Seed Capital.
Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment.
Investor
2024
Triumph is a game-developing software firm.
Raised $14,100,000.00 from Valhalla Ventures, Steel Perlot, Raven One Ventures, Heroic Ventures, Strike Capital, Flux Capital, NOMO Ventures, MAGIC Fund, BoxGroup and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
Investor
2024
Bandit Running is an apparel retail company that offers sports and athleisure apparel for men and women.
Raised $14,249,997.00.
Investor
2024
Investor
2021
WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Raised $404,751,000.00 from Thursday Ventures, Sahin Boydas, SoftBank Vision Fund, Accomplice, NextView Ventures, GP Bullhound, CAVU Consumer Partners, IVP and Animal Capital.
Investor
2021
Investor
2021
Board Advisor
2017
Own Up is a mortgage service with on-demand personal mortgage experts committed to securing home loans from certified local lenders that offer discounted interest rates.
Own Up is a technology company that assists in finding fair mortgage deals.
Raised $49,683,440.00 from Link Ventures, Brand Foundry Ventures, Listen, Techstars Ventures, Techstars and Rex Burgdorfer.
Innovation Fellow, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center
2016
Working together with an exciting team at SEAS to help mentor and advise enterprising young founders via 1:1 guidance and founding team development modules
Entrepreneur In Residence
2017
The Experts in Residence (EiR) are appointed by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to provide Harvard students guidance on their new business ventures and entrepreneurial career paths. EiRs hold office hours in the Harvard i-Lab are available to students from all graduate and undergraduate schools.
Boston Lead
2015
Member of Boston Syndicates (BOSS), a group of founders that provides support and funding to Boston-based founders via a syndicated investment vehicle.